China’s irregular maritime forces were essential in redrawing the map of the South China Sea over the past two decades, and they remain a fixture in any new ground-level clash with rival claimants.

Trans-national criminal networks are becoming entrenched in Cambodia, posing new trafficking, fraud, and governance threats throughout the region and even globally.

A civil war in the powerful Sinaloa Cartel has unleashed a wave of brutal violence across Mexico, and more violence could be in store for US cities as longstanding narcotic supply chains fracture.

The US military may still be the preeminent military power in Asia, but its competitors are catching up.

Mounting US-China trade tensions over electric vehicles illustrates the policy trade-offs between national security, competitiveness, and environmental protection.

Dwindling oil production, exhausted foreign exchange reserves, rising prices, and a failed coup in June all reflect a cascading crisis in the Bolivia economy.

Fearing secondary sanctions, Chinese banks are limiting their involvement with sanctioned Russian businesses. The resulting liquidity crunch is creating new inflationary pressures for the Russian economy.

The Myanmar civil war and Ukraine war are serving as laboratories for the testing and development of drone warfare.

Calling for elections may at first seem strange given Beijing’s strong pro-junta stance, but it’s much less so one when considering the economic interests and political parties involved.

Largely unnoticed by global headlines or great powers, the Sudan civil war has devolved into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.